Delivery of a national home safety equipment scheme in England: a survey of local scheme leaders

Abstract

Local schemes need support to effectively evaluate their scheme and to seek sustainability funding to ensure the future of the scheme. There remains a lack of evidence of whether the provision of home safety equipment reduces injuries in preschool children.

The risk assessment: an intrinsic part of environmental health, public health – and life

“…Mulvany et al 3 address the delivery of a national home safety equipment scheme in England, referring to the importance of assessing hazards in the home, and persuading occupiers to allow for home safety equipment to be fitted. Following a free home safety check, appropriate equipment could be installed by trained professionals, applying knowledge based on injury statistics to select the equipment likely to make a difference -the selection of equipment therefore being based effectively on a risk assessment.…”